Paper pail.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

H. H. STONEBARGER.

PAPER PAIL.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.31,1906.

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UNITED STATES AIFNI OFFICE.

HERBERT II. STONEBARGER, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE O-K PAPER PAIL COMPANY, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PAPER PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed December 31, 1906. Serial No. 350,232.

To all whom it may concern:

To close the cover the folds 8S are Be it known that I, HERBERT H. STONE- i pushed inwardly which forms a pocket be- BARGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Pails, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in oyster pails, designed for liquids, oysters and the like, and the particular object of the invention is to provide a certain novel construction to permit the ready and easy locking of the top covers together to close the pail Without the necessity of any fastening device, such as tin strips and the like, for locking shut the covers.

I-Ieretofore in the construction of oyster pails with integral covers, it has been customary to provide means for locking the covers shut, either by clasps of various kinds, or by tucking one of the top covers within the folds of the opposite cover.

The special object of my invention is to render more effective and more convenient for use that particular construction of oyster pail, in which one top cover has been locked by tucking same within the folds of the oppos1te cover.

In the drawings, Figure 1. is a plan view of the blank, from which the oyster pail is constructed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pail with the top covers in process of folding. F ig. 3 is a perspective view with the covers closed. 4 is a detail sectional view of the top covers as folded together.

A blank of suitable paper material is cut and scored, as shown in Fig. 1, to form a bottom 1, ends 22, and the sides 3 3, with corner folds 4--5 between the sides and ends, and with end flaps 6--7 attached to the ends 2-2, and with end folds 8-9 between the end flaps 6-7, and the adjacent corner fold 4.

The blank so far described is of common and ordinary construction, and in forming the oyster pail, it has been usual to fold together the corner folds 4, 5, and bend them outwardly, bringing them together alongside of the sides 33, and to secure these parts in place by clenching through the sides, and overlapping corner folds the inner ends of the wire bail 10.

tween the end flap 6, and the folds 9--9, and within this pocket it is desired toinsert the end. flap 7 to lock the cover.

Of course, it will be evident that the longer the cover 7 is the more securely it will be held in the pocket formed by the end flap 6 with the folds 9-9, and I have found that with this mnstruction of pail, if the end fold 7 is made long enough to satisfactorily lock the parts together, in that event, it is a difficult matter to bend the cover 7, so that it may be tucked under the cover 6. In my construction, however, I leave the tongue 12 on the cover 7, and the tongues -1 3-13 on the folds 9-9, and connected therewith by the score line 14, so that in order to fold down and lock the cover, the user bends at right angles the tongues 12, and. 13-13, which come together when the folds 8% are closed. In this way, as shown in Fig. 2, a guide is formed for the in sertion of the cover 7 underneath the cover 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A paper pail, formed from a blank of suitable paper material, cut and scored to form bottom, side and end walls, with extension flaps for the ends to form an integral top cover with side folds for one extension to form a pocket, and a guiding tongue formed on the other extension to serve as a guide to facilitate the insertion of one extension with in the other to lock the covers in place.

2. A paper pail, formed from a blank of suitable paper material, out and scored to form bottom, side and end walls with corner folds between the sides and ends and extension flaps for the ends to form an integral top cover with extension folds between the extension flaps and the corner folds, and tongue flaps for one extension flap and its adjacent extension folds to serve as a guide to facilitatethe insertion of said extension flap within the pocket formed by the other extension flap and its adj accnt extension folds to lock the covers in. place.

HERBERT ll. STONEBARGER.

Witnesses:

/V. D. OemisBY, (Inns. A. F. KELLER. 

